Migration and Pandemics Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bern Springer Nature 2022
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series
• Subjects: Migration, immigration & emigration; Political science & theory; Public administration; Border control at a time of pandemic; COVID-19 pandemic and migration; Essential migrant farmworkers in Spain and Italy; Essential migrant workers in the USA; Frontline care workers in Canada; International students during the pandemic crisis; International students in Australia; International students in the United Kingdom; Managing migration during a pandemic crisis; Migrant domestic and care workers in the USA; Migrant nurses and doctors under the pandemic; Migrant workers in agriculture in Canada; Migrant workers in agriculture in Europe; Open access; Return migration from the Gulf region; Returning asylum seekers in the Middle East; Sanctuary cities in Canada; Territorial and digital borders under the Pandemic crisis; Vulnerability and resilience in the COVID-19 crisis
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• ISBN: 978-3-030-81210-2; 9783030812102
• Access: Open Access

This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. The book offers critical insights on the impact of the pandemic on migrant workers in different world regions including North America, Europe and Asia. The book addresses several categories of migrants including medical staff, farm labourers, construction workers, care and domestic workers and international students. It looks at border closures for non-citizens, disruption for temporary migrants as well as at special arrangements made for essential (migrant) workers such as doctors or nurses as well as farmworkers, 'shipped' to destination with special flights to make sure emergency wards are staffed, and harvests are picked up and the food processing chain continues to function. The book illustrates how the pandemic forces us to rethink notions like membership, citizenship, belonging, but also solidarity, human rights, community, essential services or 'essential' workers alongside an intersectional perspective including ethnicity, gender and race.